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Upcoming event

Slamalamadingdong! featuring Neil Morris

When

Thursday, August 25 @ 7:00pm

Where

24 Moons2 Arthurton Rd Northcote

Price

$20/18

Has an Open Mic?

Yes

Registration Information

Sign up is at 6.30-6.45pm sharp. Twelve names are drawn out of a hat. If you don't get drawn, you're automatically entered into the next month.

Slamalamadingdong is Melbourne’s premiere poetry slam, featuring some of Melbourne’s hottest feature artists, and a PSI-certified three-round poetry slam each month. Poetry Slam is a competition where the point is not the points, the point is the poetry, but still, 12 poets each month compete for $50 and a featured video on the Melbourne Spoken Word YouTube channel. Rules are simple, you’ve got three minutes to use just your voice and microphone. Three minutes of your original work, no props, no costumes, and 5 randomly selected judges from the audience score you out of 10. The top six from the first round go to the second round, and then the top three from the scores of the first two rounds combined, go to the third round where three poets compete and the winner is whoever has the highest cumulative score from all three rounds. The top poets from the slams all year round are in with a chance to go to the United States to compete in international slams.